I did think about that. Nothing I can do about that now, I maybe should have found out what rev it was before I bought it, but as I was that keen to get all the parts for as cheap as I could I overlooked that. At the end of the day it's a £700 whole system so it isn't going to win any records but it's doing the job for me

I did think about that. Nothing I can do about that now, I maybe should have found out what rev it was before I bought it, but as I was that keen to get all the parts for as cheap as I could I overlooked that. At the end of the day it's a £700 whole system so it isn't going to win any records but it's doing the job for me

Temps are all within limits and I have everything that will get hot cooled, I think if I was to start down clocking I might not get the FPS I get in FSX now. So probs best to leave well alone atm haha

Yea some games that were GPU dependent it was no noticeable upgrade but in CPU limited & GPU dependent games the upgrade was really noticeable. Sleeping Dogs isn't really CPU dependent but i did get better minimums so it not longer lags in certain parts. BF3 being the game i play the most and is one of my favorites i noticed a substantle increase in performance when on MP 64.

Water is cool, pardon the pun haha. I had my olddddd comp water cooled, back when I had a e6300. Loved that pooter, had the cpu/nb/gpu in one massive loop, no mosfets heatsink and the baby ran sweet as. My bedroom was always toasty warm off the rad aswel haha. Ahh the good old days.

I did think about that. Nothing I can do about that now, I maybe should have found out what rev it was before I bought it, but as I was that keen to get all the parts for as cheap as I could I overlooked that. At the end of the day it's a £700 whole system so it isn't going to win any records but it's doing the job for me

Temps are all within limits and I have everything that will get hot cooled, I think if I was to start down clocking I might not get the FPS I get in FSX now. So probs best to leave well alone atm haha

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I hink what Super meant was to back down the clock and see if you run into stability problems. If you do then you ahve to either increase the voltage to sustain the high clock speed or back down the clock speed to make sure you run stable.
No point in high fps when the system is crashing right

I hink what Super meant was to back down the clock and see if you run into stability problems. If you do then you ahve to either increase the voltage to sustain the high clock speed or back down the clock speed to make sure you run stable.
No point in high fps when the system is crashing right

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Yeah I get that mate. It isn't crashing anymore and I don't want to push too much voltage through the vrm i case I blow it haha

Yeah it's 1.25v stock so not too bad. Will cooling the mosfets help cool the NB? 70 is a rarity it usually hovers aroundmid 50's to 60ish.

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no the NB is right above the PCI E slots, either have a different heatsink on or a fan heatsink on it, normally with the right case cooling and proper ambient room temperature you dont need to modify the nb or SB heatsinks.

no the NB is right above the PCI E slots, either have a different heatsink on or a fan heatsink on it, normally with the right case cooling and proper ambient room temperature you dont need to modify the nb or SB heatsinks.

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Yeah I know where the NB is lol, I just wasn't sure if the vrm heat would influence the temp of the NB, I have got a fan blowing on it also, possibly it isnt cooling it well enough though.

I have happy news, I just got to 5.1ghz somewhat stable with all 8 cores! http://valid.canardpc.com/2745229
Theres my CPUz. It's only 1.51v in bios, I'm quite proud of it. I got it to go yesterday but then couldn't get there again. I think my water was a bit warm, its amazing the difference it makes between semi-stable at 5.1 and not even being able to boot at 4.8 with a 5c difference in water temps. If it's around 25c it stays stable, but if it gets close to 30 it cant keep the CPU quite cool enough it seems.

Edit: Hey, I have a question that might seem kinda silly; what bios option is supposed to enable the CPU to downclock at idle? I thought it was cool n quiet, but that doesn't seem to change anything. Neither does C1E. So I was wondering if I could have inadvertently enabled/disabled something else that could have an effect?